"How to Train Your Dragon" Names Cast List

Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill and Christopher Mintz-Plasse have joined the cast of DreamWorks' upcoming CG-animated feature How to Train Your Dragon, according to The Hollywood Reporter.The film, about the son of a Viking chief who must train a dragon, is based on a novel by Cressida Cowell. Peter Hastings is directing; the film is scheduled to be released in March 2010.

Manga Entertainment Lineup Available on iTunes

Starz Media announced that content from Starz and subsidiary Manga Entertainment will be available on Apple's iTunes Store starting today. Titles available now include Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Noein, Tokko, and Tactics. Manga Entertainment joins FUNimation, Central Park Media. and Anime Works in providing anime content on iTunes. Single episodes are $1.99 each, with full-seasons available at costs dependent on the number of episodes in the season.

Lost Disney Art Returning to Magic Kingdom

Two hundred and fifty pieces of original animation art will be returned to the Walt Disney Company from Japan after being locked away for several decades in a janitor's closet, The New York Times reports.The cels, backgrounds, paintings and storyboard sketches were handpicked by Walt Disney for a touring exhibition sent to Japan in 1960. The collection—which contains mostly art from Sleeping Beauty but also elements from "Flowers and Trees," "Three Little Pigs," and Fantasia—was then donated to the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo. That museum, however, transferred them to the engineering college Chiba University, which locked them away in a janitorial room until their rediscovery four years ago.The collection has since been restored and sent on a tour of Japan, but Chiba has decided to return them to Disney in exchange for high-resolution digital copies and one million dollars in scholarship money.

The Jackson Five Cartoon

When I was little I used to watch the Jackson Five cartoon. I asked my husband if he knew about it because he likes The Jackson Five also. He said he’d never heard of it. How could you call yourself a Jackson Five fan if you’ve never seen the cartoon? So here is the opening from it. Now you can sit back and remember the Saturday mornings of your youth.

How to Draw Cartoon People : How to Draw Human Eyes

How to Draw Cartoon Girls : Drawing Legs on a Cartoon Girl

Cartooning tutorial. Learn how to draw legs on cartoon girls in this free video art lesson on cartooning and drawing females.

How to Draw Cartoon Animals : How to Draw Clothes for Cartoon Animals

John Canemaker Wins Emmy Award for "The Moon and the Son

Independent animator John Canemaker has won a News and Documentary Emmy Award in the "Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Graphic & Artistic Design" category for his film The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation. The film also won the 2005 Oscar for the Best Animated Short Film.

Los Angeles Animation Festival Debuts on Oct 21-22, 2007

Los Angeles will get its first animation festival in five years when the Los Angeles Animation Festival comes to town on October 21-22, 2007. The festival will be held at the renovated art deco Silent Movie Theatre at 611 N. Fairfax Ave. Screenings, premieres, parties, career workshops, and guest speakers will run throughout the festival.For full festival details, visit the official festival website at http://www.laafest.org/

New Spiderman Toon Gets More Episodes

Marvel Studios and Sony Pictures Television (SPT) has ordered an additional 13 episodes to the Spiderman series premiering in 2008.


The Spectacular Spider-Man animated series will now have a run of 26 episodes after Marvel and SPT gave the greenlight for 13 more episodes. The show will premiere in 2008 on the Kids' WB Saturday morning block on the CW network. Greg Weisman (Gargoyles, The Batman) is the supervising producer, along with Victor Cook (Hellboy: Blood and Iron and Buzz Lightyear of Star Command), who serves as producer/supervising director.“The launch of the new Spider-Man animated series is part of an aggressive strategy to continue to meet fans’ nearly insatiable demand for our world renowned webslinger,” said Eric Rollman for Spider-Man Merchandising, L.P. “The expanded commitment to the animated series will enable us to really support this exciting new Spider-Man iteration with a multi-tiered consumer products and promotional program that will bring potential licensees and retail partners a fresh and exciting new way to bring this ever-popular superhero into the marketplace.”